A dystopia empties one's mind and fills the emptiness with instruction and fear. A constant fear of disobeying, of punishment, even when the punisher is no where to be found. When Rurik Moslov stepped beyond the walls that had kept him prisoner since birth, he was still not free. Not from his father, not from his country. Instead, he is thrown into a world entirely unfamiliar to him, and his only guide a lonely man who mourns still for a loss a decade old. He was poor, weak, and still, despite having escaped, enslaved by his past. For how long does he have? How long until his guide finds out about his crimes? How long until Ipatiy the Great reclaims his own son and forces upon him the image of God? How long until he is, again, pushed before his people, and he hears, again, the cry of the prisoners, "Hail the Great And hail the Prince " "What is a Lebenworks AU?" AU stands for alternate universe. Lebenworks is a series of characters created by Emlyn M. Clark, and in each AU, are used differently.